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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] target: remove dead DF_* flags
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:21:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101111122159.GA22413@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289473630.2867.110.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 03:07:10AM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> This is still required by RAMDISK_DR to allow the backend to perform the
> se_task->task_sg[] mapping from the ramdisk provided struct scatterlists
> using se_subsystem_api->allocate_dma()

It's not actually used anywhere at all.  And if you mean fronted instead
of backend above and imply not yet merged - I don't think adding special
cases for the ramdisk driver into frontends is a good idea, as it's not
really a case worth optimizing for.  And even then it's entirely dead
and untested code for now.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-11 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 10:40 [PATCH 1/2] target: kill CONFIG_TCM_DEBUG_DEV Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-11 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] target: remove dead DF_* flags Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-11 11:07   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-11 12:21     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-11 13:04       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-11 10:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] target: kill CONFIG_TCM_DEBUG_DEV Nicholas A. Bellinger

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